Atomos: Major annoyance for new players

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Originally Posted by Preypacer

Okay... this has gone beyond being overblown at this point, I think.

It's a few minutes per hour, at certain camps. It's perfectly safe for the rest of the time. You stand more chance of dying during a leve-quest than you do dying from Atomos, even not knowing that it spawns at all, much less when it does.

Why are people making this huge deal out of it?

Is 5 minutes or so of not being able to get to an aetheryte crystal seriously so ruinous to some people's enjoyment?

Really?

I seriously have a difficult time believing that. It seems like drama for drama's sake. People arguing just to argue.

Like I said in my previous post in this thread, level 50s have just as much chance of being dropped if they port into a camp at the wrong time. In other words: It's not exclusive to new players. New players are not being singled out in this. No one is exempt from it. Didn't know about the Atomos thing and got killed once due to bad timing? Well, now you know and so it shouldn't be a problem.

I got killed, too, because I ported in at the wrong time due to not knowing when it would be spawning. Did I flip out over it? No (thought it was pretty funny, to be honest). I found out the specifics of its spawn conditions, learned when it does and now know to avoid those camps at those times. Problem solved.

Why all this drama over so small a thing?

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Wrong.
I came up on Black beard, saw the Atomos, waited for the despawn, went in and in less than 5 minutes it was back

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Originally Posted by Xakery

But you are missing a lot by grouping the people who have played this the longest. I've scrolled through the pages of this topic and the vets tell you new people how and when to avoid this. Oh my gosh, stop complaining new people and learn to read. The vets are saying, "hey look out and don't go to these places at x time or x hour"
Have a great day new people. Oh and don't worry about crying, the world will end soon enough. ^^;

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I think you understood me wrong, (or maybe i understand you wrong with the reply)
anyway i'm not gonna pick fights cause i'm not an angry person it takes alot too get me angry lol

like i said i have been avoiding the area's where it pops, my husband didn't quit playing in all this time and he enjoys being a higher level, i'm not saying higher levels aren't alout fun at all lol XD and i know i missed alot by not grouping... .

I'm just trying to point out that, yes indeed the world is infact ending and 2.0 is getting near... this will bring hopefully, alot off new players, wich this game NEEDS to be able to survive.
We all are on this forum why??
because we enjoy this game... we wonna see this succeed so we can spend another 10 years (or longer or shorter) enjoying this game all together, but if some people on this forum don't better their attitude there will be problems.

anyway that's the last i'll say on here ;P this topic lets face it IS a waste off time and i could be leveling my archer to 20 atm wich i should be doing lol ^-^ have a nice end off the world all and try to atleast enjoy it, atleast we have the pretty red moon above our heads (though it just reminds me to majora's mask lol cant unsee that creepy face on it)

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Originally Posted by Ksenia

Wrong.
I came up on Black beard, saw the Atomos, waited for the despawn, went in and in less than 5 minutes it was back

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It spawns 18:00 and 00:00 ingame time. The time betwenn 18:00 and 00:00 is shorter than between 00:00 and 18:00

Now that you know it (thanks me ^^), you can avoid atomos

You elitist pigs better clean up your act. If you don't there won't be any "new players" for 2.0. And guess what happens then. SE cancels FFXIV, due to a low subscriber base.

SE If you're listening, you better wipe everyone's character data for 2.0, or the elitist pigs will ruin the game for new players, and you can kiss all the development money away.

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Originally Posted by Jaimie

You elitist pigs better clean up your act. If you don't there won't be any "new players" for 2.0. And guess what happens then. SE cancels FFXIV, due to a low subscriber base.

SE If you're listening, you better wipe everyone's character data for 2.0, or the elitist pigs will ruin the game for new players, and you can kiss all the development money away.

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Beware who you call pig
We already said that the time between 00:00 and 18:00 ingame time is save. We helped. The rest belong to the low level players now.

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Originally Posted by Jaimie

You elitist pigs better clean up your act. If you don't there won't be any "new players" for 2.0. And guess what happens then. SE cancels FFXIV, due to a low subscriber base.

SE If you're listening, you better wipe everyone's character data for 2.0, or the elitist pigs will ruin the game for new players, and you can kiss all the development money away.

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if that happens you new people will be alone and guess what? the vets will leave. the game will collapse. Hear that SE?
SHUT UP Jaime. Have a great day. May Dalamund fall on top of your little head and delete you.

The game is hard. It is still less punishing than EverQuest 2. Low level gear is cheap to repair. It's also temporary, it's a live event that takes place in the open(read: not instanced). There will be casualties.

Honestly, it's like the weather where I live: If it gets hairy, wait 5 minutes.

I started leveling Marauder from level 1 at camp Black Brush because I decided to start cleaning up a few easy achievements for the fun of it. (plus hey, I'll want to get everything to 50 at some point anyway)

Sometimes Atomos would show up by himself, other times him and his buddies. In either case, they were gone in less than the time it took me to complete 1 leve, and from the entire process of level 1 until 10 and I was done with that camp's achievement for leves, I never got wasted by Atomos or his buddies, and I didn't teleport or go out of my way to manage that.

I think people make a waaay too huge deal out of this.
The world is ending, we can expect a few casualities, right?
It's not like only new players die. People on lvl 50 die all the time after teleporting.
Even if you just started playing and read NOTHING about 1.0 coming to an end soon you'd have to notice how the sky looks or how every second NPC you talk to talks about the apocalypse happening soon.
In the last few days, it will probably get even worse, with aetherytes no longer functioning, etc.
The end of the world is obviously NOT going to be convenient but SE is dropping enough clues and is releasing enough information for new players to notice that and enjoy the dangerous, ever changing world we have right now instead of complaining.
SE was really careful about it for a long time - Garlean assaults near the cities were non-aggro so you could just walk through as a low lvl player, Atomos only spawned at 40+ camps, etc.
But to give 1.0 a grand finale they can't keep everything safe forever, otherwise it wouldn't be "grand".

Here's a tip: when you teleport to a camp that atomos is located. Walk don't run until it's clear.